Chugoku Haiden (present-day Chugoku Electric Power Company) and Hiroshima City Asano Library
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ID Code
TKAWAMOTO0044
Title
Chugoku Haiden (present-day Chugoku Electric Power Company) and Hiroshima City Asano Library
Photographer
Toshio Kawamoto
Date
Around the end of 1945
Location
Komachi
Distance from hypocenter
680meters
Existence of phorographic nagatives
No
Owner
Hiroshima City
Custodian
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Description
Headquarters of the Chugoku Haiden (present-day Chugoku Electric Power Company) in Komachi, about 680 meters from the hypocenter. Next to the headquarters is Hiroshima City’s Asano Library. Looking southeast from northwest. On the right is Hiroshima City Hall. In the right foreground is a fire cistern. To the rear of the cistern are gravestones of Jonenji Temple.
Record of publication in literature, exhibition
Listed in the “Peace Database” of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum website,The photo collection “The Moment of Hiroshima’s Destruction”
